Smart audiovisual integration device

ABSTRACT

A smart audiovisual integration device of this invention is disclosed which includes an audiovisual apparatus; a master controller, connected to the audiovisual apparatus in a wireless connection, where the master controller comprises an inventory unit, a zone unit and a setting unit. The inventory unit is provided with a selection of plural play modes corresponding to the desired audiovisual targets to enjoy, and the zone unit is provided with a choice of plural zones corresponding to the desire sections of a residence to stay. The setting unit is provided with detailed settings for the audiovisual apparatus according to the audiovisual targets. Once a desired section of the residence is selected and a desired audiovisual target is selected further, the audiovisual apparatus is adjusted automatically to the detailed setting of the corresponding mode through the control of the master controller, which cuts down the time for the self-adjustment by the user.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to smart audiovisual integration devices,and more particularly relates to one that is capable of integrating thewhole audiovisual equipment and featuring adaptive adjustment of thewhole audiovisual equipment to a desired play mode in accordance withthe audiovisual target of the user.

2. Description of Related Art

Home appliances were not popular back to the 30's and 60's. Homeappliances like black and white televisions, washers or radio sets arefor sure the most pervasive at those times, which all call for manualadjustment by the user, for the purposes of activation and selection.However, with the advancement of times and in this new era of technologyexplosion, numerous household products march towards featuring smart. Bymeans of specific electronic devices, for instance, cell phones, tabletsand the like, and through the use of specific telecommunication setup,the user away from home is able to control the household products, likerefrigerators, televisions, microwave ovens, etc to operate. Forinstance, a scenario that washed rice is already placed in an electricoven and ready for cooking before going to work. The power to theelectric oven is activated to cook the rice by means of a cell phonelater afternoon on the way home. A similar example like opening airconditioner to cool room temperature by means of the control by a cellphone on the way home, which substantially cuts down the time to wait.

Conventional smart home appliances appear in various outlooks, forinstance, a prior exemplified smart product comprises a remotecommunication unit and an integration unit, where the integration unitis connected in between an information center of the housing office andan audiovisual play unit of the household end, which enables theaudiovisual play unit simultaneously to receive internal householdinformation from the information center during the receiving of externaldigital or analog signals, and to display a mealtime screen at theaudiovisual play unit, by which users provide the control through theremote communication unit. And the remote communication unit also can beutilized to directly communicate with the housing office, to achieve theintegration of the housing with information.

The above example is a popular control scheme for the advancement of thetechnology nowadays, where the user is able to control the operation ofdifferent home appliances by means of the setup of the integration unitand the use of the remote communication unit. However, various homeappliances have different features based on different operational modes.For instance, as stereo oriented audiovisual equipment is concerned, thesound effect will be different subject to different programs watched bythe user. Once the user watches a symphony program, the sound effect isadjusted in accordance with the symphony; on watching a movie, the soundeffect is switched to the movie mode. Moreover, a succeeding vieweroften changes the mode for sound effect relative to the preceding viewerto suit her/his own needs, which consumes time for such adjustments. Onthe other hand, the adjustment of audiovisual equipment calls for fieldprofessional of that specific techniques, instead of general users. Thefalse adjustment could bring about tough restoration. And the complexityof the audiovisual equipment leads to time consuming for the adjustmentby general users. Therefore, the relating manufacturers nowadays have tothink over the convenience for the adjustment by different level ofusers.

In view of the drawbacks of the aforementioned examples, this inventorconceived deeply the idea to the research of the invention, thecomparison of each advantage and disadvantage with the prior art, andthe development of the relating products, and eventually the longtimeendeavors gave birth to “Smart Audiovisual Integration device” of thisinvention, which improves the aforementioned drawbacks, to suit the useby general users.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The primary objective of the present invention is to provide an optimalplay mode based on the selected program of a succeeding user and is freeof further adjustment of the audiovisual equipment, which avoids thewaste of time due to the false self-adjustment, to improve the drawbacksof the prior techniques; that is, the prior art fails to provide anoptimal play mode subject to the selected program by the differentusers. The prior techniques require self-adjustment for the connectinglines, play mode and the like of the audiovisual equipment, which areeasy to lead to problems of false adjustment, mode lost or damage to theapparatus.

Accordingly, the present invention attempts to improve the foregoingshortcomings to achieve the aforementioned objective and function. Thepresent invention, a smart audiovisual integration device, is used tocontrol plural home appliances at every section of a residence,comprising: an audiovisual apparatus; a master controller, connected tothe audiovisual apparatus in a wireless connection, where the mastercontroller comprises an inventory unit, a zone unit and a setting unit.The inventory unit is provided with a selection of plural play modescorresponding to the desired audiovisual targets to enjoy, and the zoneunit is provided with a choice of plural zones corresponding to thedesire sections of a residence to stay. The setting unit is providedwith detailed settings for the audiovisual apparatus according to theaudiovisual targets. Once a desired section of the residence is selectedand a desired audiovisual target is selected further, the audiovisualapparatus is adjusted automatically to the detailed setting of thecorresponding mode through the control of the master controller, whichcuts down the time for the self-adjustment by the user.

A further technical feature of the present invention is that the mastercontroller further comprises a manual adjustment setting unit, where themanual adjustment setting unit offers the user an adjustment of thedetailed setting of the audiovisual apparatus according to theaudiovisual target.

A further technical feature of the present invention is that theinventory unit is provided with a selection of play modes as follows:movie mode, television mode, song mode, slumber mode, video mode andhome theater mode.

A further technical feature of the present invention is that the mastercontroller is a tablet computer or a smart phone, and the audiovisualapparatus is embodied as a television, a karaoke, an amplifier, a hometheater, a DVD player and a stereo system.

A further technical feature of the present invention is that the mastercontroller is provided with a timing setting unit, where the timingsetting unit is used to set the time for the audiovisual apparatus tooperate.

A further technical feature of the present invention is that the mastercontroller is provided with a reminding unit, where the reminding unitis used to remind the user the change of original settings of thesetting unit according to the changing of the play mode by the user.

A further technical feature of the present invention is that the mastercontroller is provided with an on-off unit, where the on-off unit isused to control the ON and OFF of the audiovisual apparatus.

To summarize the aforementioned technical features of this invention,the advantage lies in the making use of the various built-in units ofthe master controller. Once desiring to watch a movie, simply to selecta corresponding movie mode, and the master controller will control eachof the audiovisual apparatus to adjust automatically to the movie mode.Once for music, a song mode is selected, and each of the audiovisualapparatus is adjusted automatically to the song mode. Accordingly, thisdesign approach enables the user to save much more time in selection,manipulation and alteration, which avoids the self-adjustment of thesetting of the audiovisual apparatus relative to the preceding user,substantially diminishing the waste of time and energy, and furtheravoiding the influence of the operation of the audiovisual apparatus byfalse adjustment. Therefore, this invention is a creation ofpracticality and inventiveness, considerably worthy of promotion by theindustry, and open to the public.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram of a preferred embodiment of thepresent invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram in a bedroom A where the user selectstelevision mode by the master controller, and controls the relatedaudiovisual apparatus for the adaptive adjustment of a preferredembodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram in a parlor where the user selects moviemode by the master controller, and controls the related audiovisualapparatus for the adaptive adjustment of a preferred embodiment of thepresent invention; and

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram in a bedroom B where the user selectssleeping mode by the master controller, and controls the relatedaudiovisual apparatus for the adaptive adjustment of a preferredembodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

To describe clearly that the present invention is able to achieve theforegoing objective and function, which relates to a smart audiovisualintegration device, where its adopted techniques, means and the desiredfunction are described as follows with reference to a preferredembodiment and accompanying drawings.

Some preferred embodiments are described in the following, which are notintended to limit the scope of this invention. With reference to FIGS.1-4, the present invention, a smart audiovisual integration device, aimsto control plural home appliances in various sections of a residence,comprising: an audiovisual apparatus 1, offering users enjoyment invision and hearing; a master controller 2, connected to the audiovisualapparatus 1 wirelessly, where the master controller 2 controls thevarious adjustments of the audiovisual apparatus 1, and comprises aninventory unit 21, a zone unit 22 and a setting unit 23. The inventoryunit 21 is provided with a selection of plural play modes correspondingto the desired audiovisual targets to enjoy, and the zone unit 22 isprovided with a choice of plural zones corresponding to the sections ofthe residence to stay. The setting unit 23 is provided with detailedsettings for the audiovisual apparatus 1 according to the audiovisualtarget. Once a desired zone is selected from the zone unit 22 and a playmode for the desired audiovisual target is selected, the audiovisualapparatus 1 is automatically adjusted to the detailed settings of thecorresponding play mode through the control by the master controller,which cuts down the time for the self-adjustment.

First of all, a grasp of the selection of play modes in the inventoryunit 21 of the present invention is given here, where the selectioncomprises the following modes: movie mode 211, television mode 212, songmode 213, slumber mode 214, video mode 215 and home theater mode. Themaster controller 2 manipulated by the user is a tablet computer or asmart phone, which is electrically connected to the audiovisualapparatus 1 in a wireless or wired connection. And the audiovisualapparatus 1 controlled by the master controller 2 is embodied as atelevision, a karaoke-on-demand, an amplifier, a home theater, a DVDplayer or a stereo system (the aforesaid selection of the inventory unit21, the types of the master controller 2 and the embodiments of theaudiovisual apparatus 1 are not intended to be limited by the abovedescription), shown in FIG. 1.

According to the foregoing description, actual examples are enumeratedfor illustration; for instance, shown in FIG. 2, with a reference toFIG. 1. Once a user intends to watch audiovisual apparatus 1 in abedroom A, the audiovisual equipment to be employed involves atelevision and a stereo; therefore, the user selects television mode 212item from the inventory unit 21 through the use of the master controller2, and selects a zone from the zone unit 22 item, with which theoriginal detailed settings of the television and the stereo at thebedroom A by the setting unit 23 can be adjusted. Supposing thetelevision and stereo are the required audiovisual apparatus forwatching television at the bedroom A which are originally set by thesetting unit 23 by means of the master controller 2, where the detailedsettings of the television are as follows: image—high definition, soundeffect—three-dimensional surround, speech—bilingual, aspect ratio—1:15,etc, and the detailed settings of the stereo are as follows:frequency—heavy bass, volume—28, playing level —2 granules, etc. Whenthe user intends to watch television at the bedroom A next time,whatever she/he needs is to select the same mode which controls thetelevision and the stereo to automatically switch to the originalsettings, substantially reducing the adjusting time by the user, whichavoids mode lost or damage to the apparatus by the self-adjustment.

Another example is provided herein for illustration, shown in FIG. 3,with a reference to FIG. 1. Once a user intends to watch a movie in theparlor, the user simply selects the corresponding movie mode 211 and thedesired zone of the zone unit 22 by means of the master controller 2,and the master controller 2 proceeds to the control of the adjustment ofthe audiovisual apparatus 1 such as television, stereo, player, hometheater and the like automatically. However, the detailed settings tocontrol the audiovisual apparatus 1 demanded by the movie mode 211 forwatching movie has to be set first by the setting unit 23. For instance,the stereo is set according to the user preference as follows: soundeffect—three-dimensional surround, volume—30, tone—noise removal, andfrequency—heavy bass; the television settings as follows: brightness—90,contrast—22, sharpness—5; and the player settings: section—3^(rd),playing sequence—cyclic. By means of the original setting of the moviemode 211 in the setting unit 23, once the user intends to watch a moviein the parlor, she/he simply controls the automatic adjustment of therelating audiovisual apparatus 1 by selecting the movie mode 211 fromthe inventory unit 21 of the master controller 2, which enables the userthe adjustment of all the relating audiovisual apparatus 1 to theoptimal watching simply sitting on the chair.

Aside from the setting of various audiovisual modes by the setting unit23 of the present invention, the user is available to adjust thedetailed settings of each mode according to the circumstances at thattime and the personal preference, shown in FIG. 1. Therefore, a manualadjustment setting unit 24 is built in the master controller 2, and theuser is able to adjust the detailed settings of various modes with thesetup of the manual adjustment setting unit 24, with which the optimalaudiovisual target can be tuned. Moreover, the user is asked whether tosave the adjusted detailed settings or not after the manual adjustmentof the original detailed settings is done, with which the optimalaudiovisual effect of each mode can be accomplished. Besides, the mastercontroller 2 is further provided with a timing setting unit 25, wherethe timing setting unit 25 is used to set the time for the audiovisualapparatus 1 to operate through the user. Please refer to FIG. 4. Forinstance, the master controller 2 is used to select the slumber mode 214in the bedroom B, and the timing setting unit 25 is used to set theaudiovisual apparatus 1 to operate for 30 minutes. With above settings,the audiovisual apparatus 1 will be automatically shut down after 30minutes to cut down the consuming of electrical power. Once a user isready to sleep in the bedroom B, the operational time of the relatingaudiovisual apparatus 1 may be first set through the timing setting unit25, and the slumber mode 214 is selected from the inventory unit 21 forthe following controls: television brightness—10, stereo volume—5,frequency—light bass, time to operate—shut down after 30 minutesautomatically. In this way, the user can be easy to sleep, no need toworry about the waste of electric power and the increasing charge. Thetiming setting unit 25 further allows the set time to be saved. With theassistance by the manual adjustment setting unit 24 and the timingsetting unit 25, the user enjoys the high level of delight brought bythe audiovisual equipment.

Once detailed settings of respective modes are set by the setting unit23, operating time is set by the timing setting unit 25, and thedetailed adjustment are done by the manual adjustment setting unit 24,the master controller 2 is further provided with a reminding unit 26, toremind the user whether or not to save the modified settings. Thereminding unit 26 offers the user the reminding during the alteration ofthe setting and the saving of the settings, where the original detailedsettings can be employed without the need to adjust by the user. Themaster controller 2 is further provided with an on-off unit 27, wherethe on-off unit 27 is used to control the ON and OFF of the audiovisualapparatus 1 by means of the master controller 2, shown in FIG. 1.

According to the foregoing illustration in accordance with the presentinvention, and the provision of the built-in units of the mastercontroller 2, the user is available to control the operation ofrespective audiovisual apparatus 1 at each section of her/his residenceby means of the master controller 2, substantially reducing the time forthe adjustment of every audiovisual apparatus 1 by the user. The desiredplay modes at different audiovisual apparatus are different, theadjustment of audiovisual apparatus calls for field professional of thatspecific techniques, instead of general users. Therefore, the mastercontroller 2 is able to offer the general users an easy way to directlyselect a corresponding mode according to the desired audiovisual target,such as watching movie, watching television, listening to orchestra andthe like. The master controller 2 is used to control the automaticdetailed adjustments of the relating audiovisual apparatus 1 accordingto the desired audiovisual target, which reduces the damage coursed byself-adjustment of the relating audiovisual apparatus 1. The inventoryunit 21 is able to set adequate modes to save according to differentaccustoms of the users. For instance, the movie mode 211 is categorizedinto A, B, and C branches (A, B and C are the detailed items of themovie mode 211, for example, valley echo mode, concert hall mode, loudspeak mode, which provide users a further detailed selection). Anddifferent categories of the movie mode 211 are subject to differentaccustoms of the users, with which more users are able to control theoperation of respective audiovisual apparatus 1 by means of the mastercontroller 2, and more to use the corresponding play modes. Thisinvention features great practicality by comparing with the priortechniques, and conforms to the demands of general public.

The foregoing descriptions are merely the exemplified embodiments of thepresent invention, where the scope of the claim of the present inventionis not intended to be limited by the embodiments. Any equivalentembodiments or modifications without departing from the spirit and scopeof the present invention are therefore intended to be embraced.

In conclusion, the practicality and cost benefit of the presentinvention “Smart Elevator Control Device” are completely compliant tothe requirements of industry development, and the disclosed structure ofthe invention had not appeared in the prior art, which is no doubt topossess novelty, and this invention features efficacy better than theprior structure which is construed to be a creative invention, therebyfiling the present application herein subject to the patent law, whichmay obtain a patent thereof.

What is claimed is:
 1. A smart audiovisual integration device, tocontrol a plurality of home appliances at each section of a residence,comprising: an audiovisual apparatus; and a master controller, connectedto said audiovisual apparatus wirelessly, where said master controllercomprises an inventory unit, a zone unit and a setting unit, and theinventory unit being provided with a selection of a plurality of playmodes corresponding to audiovisual targets, the zone unit being providedwith a choice of a plurality of zones corresponding to sections of aresidence while the setting unit is provided with detailed settings forsaid audiovisual apparatus according to the audiovisual targets, whereina desired section of the residence is selected and a desired audiovisualtarget is selected further, said audiovisual apparatus being adjustedautomatically to the detailed settings of a corresponding play modethrough control of said master controller, which cuts down the time forthe self-adjustment by a user.
 2. The smart audiovisual integrationdevice as claimed in claim 1, wherein said master controller furthercomprises a manual adjustment setting unit, where the manual adjustmentsetting unit offers the user an adjustment of detailed setting of saidaudiovisual apparatus according to the audiovisual target.
 3. The smartaudiovisual integration device as claimed in claim 1, wherein theinventory unit is provided with a selection of play modes as follows:movie mode, television mode, song mode, slumber mode, video mode andhome theater mode.
 4. The smart audiovisual integration device asclaimed in claim 1, wherein said master controller is a tablet computeror a smart phone, and said audiovisual apparatus is embodied as atelevision, a karaoke, an amplifier, a home theater, a DVD player and astereo system.
 5. The smart audiovisual integration device as claimed inclaim 1, wherein said master controller is provided with a timingsetting unit, where the timing setting unit is used to set the time forsaid audiovisual apparatus to operate.
 6. The smart audiovisualintegration device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said master controlleris provided with a reminding unit, where the reminding unit is used toremind the user a change of original settings of the setting unitaccording to a change to a play mode by the user.
 7. The smartaudiovisual integration device as claimed in claim 1, wherein saidmaster controller is provided with an on-off unit, where the on-off unitis used to control the ON and OFF of said audiovisual apparatus.